- The shark tooth settled at the edge of her shirt collar. He wouldn’t do shit. Every few seconds Joel flicked his eyes up, his gaze growing sharper, his mouth a set line. Finally, he stopped looking, instead scowling into the fire.

- @adhdprincess

Hello beautiful! Thanks for the ask and hope you have been doing better ❤️

I haven't been able to write as much as I've wanted, and I've been torturing myself being a perfectionist so this is the worst combo to be in and I haven't been as creative as I usually am, so since that I returned to a fic that I actually love and I like to add periodically.

Not only is the writing there great, but I know it would be a solid plot if I ever posted it haha modern day au shenanigans with a grieving deeply tormented Tess trying to wrap her head around someone like Joel (a single father at the top of his game) being in love with her when they've just been fooling around for some months. Lots of miscommunication and angst but eventually things will get better for them. Oh and there's a baby Ellie because that's my brand and she's my daughter.

Snippet under the cut 🫡

Like do you make faces when you type or think "how could he do that!?" when you make a character do something? Just curious ❤️

- @adhdprincess

hi friend!!

- @adhdprincess

Fanfic ask game

Hey Mimi! Thank you so much for sending this, and I hope you've been doing well :)

23. What’s a story you’d love to write but haven’t even started yet?

*Hides a long list of ideas that are sitting inside my head* just... just one?????

I have had vague ideas over certain stuff, and they clatter around my brain often, but if I had to pick something I would love working on, then I must say Spy AU is up there!

As usual this idea is a collaboration with my best friend/muse/biggest fan Koku and we have talked about this often, we have a board for it on Pinterest and we have certain important narrative beats for when I wrote it, IF I wrote it, so it's a neat idea that I haven't been able to focus on and work on it and the more I think about it the less I feel suited for an au of this kind even though I watched certain noir films and for some reason got a burst of inspiration lol

It's not the most groundbreaking AU ever, but Joel and Tess get paired up by Marlene even though Joel hates it at first because he always works alone and well Tess is Tess and she doesn't do teamwork but she'll manage. Joel is a retired soldier and a grieving dad, Sarah got killed and he divorced his wife, so he's closed off and surly most times and he's kind of living with no goals since he lost Sarah. Meanwhile Tess never ever had such a thing as a family bc all this time she was merely a weapon since she was a spy and she hasn't had a good life either so that's what eventually gets them to be more closer. At some point they have to fake being married and that is something fun to imagine. They almost die all the time. There's some betrayal at some point. There's so much denial of feels.

Ask me about my wips!

Hi friend and thank you soooo so much for asking + sorry it took so long 🥹

The most basic explanation for this is: accidental baby acquisition.

I had this idea around of Ellie turning into a baby somehow and Tess and Joel find her like that, mistaking her for a random baby dropped in the garage/her place. Anyway they soon realize that's really Ellie and wonder if she's trapped IN a baby body OR she's legit a baby and well, she's just a wailing tiny baby who needs them.

This was pure Crack but I've let it marinate a bit and I took it seriously, so borrowing an OC — @clairenovaking Jackson doctor Nina, she's the one they immediately go visit to see if she's okay and if there's something she can do. It's immunity related in a sense because it seems like somehow, Ellie's body went back to get the cordyceps rid of it and it aged her down.

They get to Maria because someone has to have baby things and she's like the major of the city so. They knock on her door with a baby less than a year old and she's so confused. Tess is panicking because she doesn't deal with kids and Joel is just dad. They're trying.

This is also the period where Ellie has kind of strayed far from them/hinting their estrangement so having her back around being a baby who is dependent on them gives them major whiplash.

Behold, a snippet:

- from @adhdprincess (mimisak on discord)

19. share your favorite piece of dialogue.

i have genuinely written too much to ever remember any of the dialogue i've written haha. i do think, however, that in particular my dialogue in my tyler/kate road trip fic, and all of this wild joy, is some of my most in character dialogue ever.

28. if this were an awards show, who would you thank?

- @adhdprincess

Fic titles ask game

Hello there, love! And sure! :)

Let Us Outlive The Wolves

This was a short thingy I wrote for the word prompts I did a while ago (I still take those, but I haven't done another round) that's set in canon. Tess and Joel deal with some unpleasant weather, it's almost the end of the year, and Joel sort of acknowledges he's still very much alive and thriving alongside Tess. I enjoy doing slice-of-life one-shots of these two, and writing this was part of their routine :)

So with those sorts of vibes of living despite their hardships, I remembered this poem from Rhiannon McGavin, titled "Prayer for the new year." That goes:

For the new year, I won’t count it down like a / uranium bomb. The last days / came as a plague ship over the horizon, I / know, so I’m swimming to meet it. Let the / desert bloom through ruins we can look out of, let us / outlive the wolves. Fresh air is the only kiss I / need and I will carry you like honey and / apples. Bless the body between / love and fear, bless who / dares the skyline, and who holds / thieves accountable from the lamp posts / as fireworks blaze into red dandelions, / and what’s the future except an / unfolded table cloth? / Midnight led by the shifting light / of wounds across white rose / petals? I / I will / I will see / I will see the moon and morning and hope.

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Whoa idk how I missed this! Sorryyy